Asean Summit: Extremists do not represent any race or religion, Najib says as he vows to fight terror

United we stand: (From left) Philippine President Benigno Aquino, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Najib, Laos Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen, Indonesia President Joko Widodo and Myanmar President Thein Sein joining hands during the Asean convention signing against human trafficking at the 27th Asean Summit in Kuala Lumpur. — AFP

KUALA LUMPUR: The Islamic State terror group is an evil that blasphemes against the name of the religion and its ideology must be exposed as a lie.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said military solutions alone were not enough to defeat IS and urged all nations to recognise that the problem of extremism required new solutions.